Anyone using a Terratec Grabster under Debian?
Hi all,
I've got a bunch of PAL (British) VCR tapes that I'm trying to
transfer to DVDs which will play on a standard American DVD player.
(Before someone suggests it, no, I don't have a multi-format combo DVD
and VHS player!)
The device I'm using for this is a Terratec Grabster, which takes the
video output in at one end, and produces an MPEG via a USB connection.
I was doing these conversions on an old Windows XP box, and everything
was working just fine, but unhappily my XP box didn't survive a house
move. :(
Terratec don't even want to know about Linux, not to mention that my
version of the device (the 400 Mk II) is now out of support.
I've tried a VirtualBox VM using my old version of XP, but as best I'm
able to determine, there's some problem with the video under a VM.
Anyway, I just can't get it to work.
What I would really like to do, of course, is to continue doing the
conversions on my 64-bit Debian box, but this means I need to find a
driver for the device (I found about the pvrusb2 drivers, but they're
a few years old, and there was talk about them being included in later
distros - anyone know?) AND I need to find software which can capture
the MPEG stream from the USB port.
If anyone out there has already solved this, or even just has some
suggestions for what I can try, I'd be grateful.
Brian.
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